Public involvement will be a key to planning and developing the corridor. During the corridor's route-selection phase, any needed changes will be identified through a detailed, project-specific process of public involvement. The public will have opportunities to comment early and often.

CONS

What opponents say:

It's designed to generate revenue first and provide transportation second.

The Corridor plan is predicated on a projection that Texas population growth will continue at a rate of 30,000 new residents a month, but does not address population distribution or how the proposed corridors will serve that population.

The Corridor will take business away from hundreds of Texas communities by limiting traveler access and providing, in its place, State contract concessions that will include gas, food, hotels, and stores.

To protect their money, private investors may insist on terms and conditions that are contrary to the public good.

Potential for tremendous liabilities created by Comprehensive Development Agreements, controversial financing instruments.

The project authorizes the Commission to seize more than one-half million acres of private land. The property will be used not only for transportation, but as State owned rental property in direct competition with private business.

The approximately 580,000 acres consumed by the Corridor will become State land taken off county and school district tax rolls. Local taxpayers will absorb the difference.